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You're never going to get rid of bribery and corruption entirely, unfortunately. Greed is way too strong a motivator. Hopefully people actually getting arrested and charged for it makes people think twice though.
Europe is now spending new billions in security. My guess is just new Political drama, a theatre to cover up corrupt spending.
Will there be issues? Of course, whenever money is involved there are issues but as usual: level and degree matter. It's not binary black-and-white.
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> Why is the police of a single country authorized to investigate EU parliament members just because of the geographical location? The EU is not a nation. It doesn't have a police. Crimes do not take place on its territory, because it has none. So then it'll fall onto the Belgium (or French) police. Wrt to the rest: just asking questions, right?
> It doesn't have a police It does, Europol. For this case, considering there were raids in multiple different countries within Europe, they probably were involved.
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I don't know, perhaps it's because American politicians have higher moral standards, or maybe it's because bribery is not illegal in the United States.
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Europe is now spending new billions in security. My guess is just new Political drama, a theatre to cover up corrupt spending.
You can have that opinion but until it's founded in reality it's just that: a baseless opinion. Will there be issues? Of course, whenever money is involved there are issues but as usual: level and degree matter. It's not binary black-and-white.
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>> Authorities suspect that Huawei lobbyists have paid bribes to MEPs in return for backing their cause in the European Union. > Isn’t that the cost of doing business in the EU? No, it's not. If you represent a business there is an official way to express your stance and lobby for your cause but bribing MEPs is a criminal offence (both for the perpetrator and those who receive personal benefits).
Here is what I have learned from people who know the system very well and after working with it myself:
- The EU is designed to be influenced and run by lobbies. And it is in the open and assumed.
- The Parliament is a joke. And you can partially blame the member countries who really do not send their best there, because they know it is joke.
- It used to be that corruption was not a thing in the EU. Just because none of those Commission people would risk their career and benefits, and it was severely punished. So they wouldn't even accept a cup of coffee from you.
Now it does seem things got out of control, at least in the Parliament.